A Thunderstorm-like of Applause

After all the stressful assignments are done, I finally got back my time to blog about events which happened more than a month ago. Can anybody recalled Taylor’s Academic Excellence Award 2009 which is now nothing more than a piece of history?

I just want to thank all my dear friends to participated in the standing ovation when I collected these awards:

• Accounting I Book Prize
• Accounting II Book Prize
• Economics I Book Prize
• Economics II Book Prize
• Business Mathematics Book Prize
• Business Statistics Book Prize
• Business Computing Book Prize
• Dean’s List Award
• Best Student Award

I know I shouldn’t brag about this, but this is just to inform other parties such as my teachers who didn’t know about this that I did not disappoint you.

Alright, I think we should just let the photos do the talking since it was so long ago.

 With Lisa Mok

With Billy Ooi

With Kevin Tan & Heng Luen

With Wei Liem

  My Foundation in Business classmates

    With some of 3.1s

With Nicole Chua

With some of the 3.2s

With half of the January 2008 Intake Dean’s List Recipients

However, bad news always comes along with good news. On that time, I just realised that I FAILED in getting Taylor’s World Class Scholarship once AGAIN! It sounds so ironic that the Best Student of Taylor’s very own Business Foundation course is not eligible for Taylor’s summit of reward.

But like I’d said, bad events always have their good side-effects. Since I am not obligated to stay with Taylor’s anymore which is also what they wanted in the first place, I’ve decided to credit transfer to University of Western Australia next February. So now I’m scouting for friends who have the same frequency as me and hope we can all go together in as a group. Just for your information, I’ll be doing Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Finance and Economics) over there. Feel free to tell me by all means if you’re interested or would like to know more about my target!

Enjoying the Rareness of a Malaysian Blizzard

Can anybody guess where this is?

 

I suppose I have scared off half of my readers with my previous lengthy, dull and lack-of-visuals posts. But not to worry, the upcoming posts will be back to normal – photo spamming again.

This post shall be about my first class outing with my University of South Australia 1.10 classmates, since I failed to attend the steamboat buffet party due to my tuition. Well, credit goes to Teong Jin for organising another great successful event for the class.

First, we started off with Dim Sum at USJ 21. This was rare as I seldom eat Dim Sum; in fact, I never eaten them with my friends before. To my surprise, he not only invited the present classmates of ours, but also other course mates and our last year’s classmates.

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So that were just some of the photos we have taken at the restaurant. The business owner must have felt overwhelming when he saw such a big group of 30 college students roaming into his premise. The humorous thing is that he asked us have we just finished tuition at one of the nearby tuition centres. Do we really look like afternoon session high school teens,or even worse, primary school kids?  Anyway, we had plenty of fun feasting with long-time-no-see friends and present classmates.

Next would be the blast when most of us went to Sunway Pyramid. And so, four cars led by the insane Haw Yang, Shan Lung the womaniser, veteran Teong Jin and the motherly car owner Sim Ee raced to the destination through several different directions, just like in the movie of Fast and Furious 4.

When we reached there, our group split into half whereby some want to watch Marley and Me, and the other half prefer to indulge themselves at Red Box. I guess you should have known me by now and I don’t think I even need to clarify which I have chosen.

Once we reached Red Box, our already-divided group has been separated into another two parts: English songs room and Chinese songs room. Guess what was my decision this time? If I you have thought that I would go into one of the rooms only, you are indeed wrong. I know I was greedy because all along, I always monopolise the microphone, just like Zheng Yang. But that was only in one room. Now, I was actually taking control of two rooms and I just shifted myself from one room to another when my songs are in turn. So basically, I synchronised all the order of the songs in my favour and sang non-stop from 1pm to 4pm. This was not even rare, because I never had a chance to sing in two rooms simultaneously before.

Thanks to Haw Yang who triggered me into yelling and shouting during Shake It, I almost lost my voice and I can’t talk loudly for a day. I do hope everybody enjoyed despite me monopolising every end of Red Box. I also want to apologise to Tien Jiun for being late an hour when you can actually finish singing all the Jay Chou songs by then. This was my first time seeing Nicholas and Benedict going out of their mind along with the rhythm of Please Don’t Stop The Music, my classic. On the other hand, Kaylie and Jo Ee were busy doing their duets in the other room. I feel really sorry for Kar Mun who fell sick on such a occasional day and was unable to join us due to that. Here are some photos of our KTV Party and lastly, a video of our final song of the day inserted for your pleasure (or more like Welcome to Hell).

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Video recorded by Kaylie. Sorry for the sound defects because the zooming does not record sounds. Maybe you all should hope that the whole video is muted so that you don’t even need to listen to my extremely out-of-tune voice at all.

 Photos snapped by Haw Yang who has a camera phobia (Shin Yi, 2009), inside and outside Sunway Pyramid’s mirror lift despite the fact that we were already late for class.

What’s even rare was that I actually skipped Marketing PASS (Peer Assisted Study Session) because of all these. Since we spent too much time calculating our individual bills for the singing, we left Sunway at 4pm (the time when our Management Block Lecture begins). By the time Haw Yang found parking right in front of Taylor’s Main Campus, it was already 4.20pm. Therefore, this became the next rare occurrence because I was only severely late for lectures once. Professor Luke Faulkner, the South Australian lecturer greeted us by saying something similar to ‘better late than never’ and ‘thanks for coming’. All thanks to KTV! This is my phrase of the day:

NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE, OUR SINGING SPIRIT SHALL NEVER DIE!

What’s worse is that the other gang was still watching Marley and Me when we arrived at the Lecture Theatre. What a long movie! Maybe we should start naming our class the Class of Tardiness. Eventually, they arrived around 10 minutes after we came and Prof Luke repeated the same words again.

I guess that’s all for my first class outing where so many first happenings occurred on that day. I really do hope our class which has only a lifespan of 4 months will be able to gather like that every once in a while, even after it dies.

Rushing into a Self-conjured Hurricane

At last, my study break has arrived and finally do I have a peace of mind in writing all the posts for the events which happened throughout this hectic month of April. So prepare for a continuous range of deferred posts which I shall be blogging on.

At the beginning of this month, I was really busy with my Accounting Test and also both my Financial Management and Introduction to Management assignments. The tenseness was so immense that there was not a single sign of fooling around on April Fool’s Day. The worst thing which happened to me during that first week was completing my Management assignment. It was scary because I finished it at the last minute. The fact of doing an assignment when I’m oblivious of the deadline is sickening as my heart kept beating fast as every second elapsed. This state of oblivion was due to the confusion caused as I don’t know whether to follow the Malaysian time zone or Adelaide’s. Furthermore, the daylight savings had recently adjusted Adelaide’s time zone and I can’t even tell the the time difference between these two places. As I panicked through the failure of submitting it using Mozilla Firefox, I was enlightened and out of the blue, I decided to use Internet Explorer which I never touch it before. Thank God it succeeded and best still, I handed up an hour earlier before the deadline.

After all the rushing of assignments, I had to go through a supposedly unrelated business to me – preparing for exams on the second week of April. But I’m not the one sitting for them, why should I even care? I could have spent all my time getting ready for the Taylor’s World Class Scholarship interview and won’t have to screw it like now. Okay, maybe I shouldn’t put blame on other things when I fail something. So anyway, teaching my sister and my students are part of my responsibilities, especially during their exam week. This perfectly suits the title of this post, whereby I had been too ignorant to set up a trap for myself AND I even entered the trap voluntarily knowing the danger and risks of it.

At least I survived all of them except for the scholarship interview. But whatever! Now, I get to do my twinning programme or even a credit transfer in the near future. So the day that I have been waiting and planning for had finally arrived, which is the Friday right after all their exams and my interview were over. Fast and Furious 4 with Boon Kuang!! Because of this movie, I get to experience driving through one of the heaviest rainstorms which I ever encountered in my life, and to make things worse, I was heading to a destination (KTM, Subang Jaya) which I didn’t know the way. However, I still believe that experience was worthwhile because it led me to another first-time occurrence – a movie at the THX Theatre of Gold Screen Cinemas, Summit USJ.

Although Fast and Furious 4 was slightly below my high expectations, it’s still a good show and I give it a 7.5 over 10 rating. The best part of this film was the GPS System used when they race on the usual roadway. The computerised technology used throughout the race track spiced the movie up a bit for me, and it changed my impression on the lameness of the GPS Road Navigator which I am currently using and SELLING!

Clicking on the photo above will direct you to a range of GPS products which I am selling. They are really helpful for Klang Valley road users especially because they provide extremely detailed road directions and maps which will definitely lead users to their destinations safely. They also possess the ability to scan for roads out of their systems when users do not obey the directions provided, and they would adapt the shortcuts and pathways that users normally use out of their habits. Besides that, there are optional features such as a built-in camera connected to the back of the car to show the rear view which would assist in parking. All in all, just feel free to drop by my official website, www.chinwynn.com for more information and questions can be directed to me as well through email.

And that’s all for the first half of my April.  Despite not being able to attend David Archuleta’s showcase at Sunway’s Amphitheatre which so many of my friends went whether they are my high school friends or college course mates, I dare say I’m satisfied since I was able to release all my stress through watching a movie which I have been waiting for more than a month with my best pal. Listen here, Boon Kuang. I sacrificed this show for you even though all of my classmates were about to watch it with me on the following week. Sadly, I had to reject all the invitations but I’m grateful that I watched it with you.